To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?